Sub Terra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH HIJKLMNOPQRS ATUBVWSXC AYZBPGA2EB2QC2AD2EE2| Where shall I find you | A |
| You my grotesque fellows | B |
| That I seek everywhere | C |
| To make up my band | D |
| None not one | E |
| With the earthy tastes I require | F |
| The burrowing pride that rises | G |
| Subtly as on a bush in May | H |
| - | |
| Where are you this day | H |
| You my seven year locusts | I |
| With cased wings | J |
| Ah my beauties how I long | K |
| That harvest | L |
| That shall be your advent | M |
| Thrusting up through the grass | N |
| Up under the weeds | O |
| Answering me | P |
| That shall be satisfying | Q |
| The light shall leap and snap | R |
| That day as with a million lashes | S |
| - | |
| Oh I have you | A |
| Yes you are about me in a sense | T |
| Playing under the blue pools | U |
| That are my windows | B |
| But they shut you out still | V |
| There in the half light | W |
| For the simple truth is | S |
| That though I see you clear enough | X |
| You are not there | C |
| - | |
| It is not that it is you | A |
| You I want my companions | Y |
| God if I could only fathom | Z |
| The guts of shadows | B |
| You to come with me | P |
| Poking into negro houses | G |
| With their gloom and smell | A2 |
| In among children | E |
| Leaping around a dead dog | B2 |
| Mimicking | Q |
| Onto the lawns of the rich | C2 |
| You | A |
| To go with me a tip toe | D2 |
| Head down under heaven | E |
| Nostrils lipping the wind | E2 |
William Carlos Williams
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